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🏃‍♂️ 10-Minute At-Home DAPE Exercise Routine 🏃‍♀️

No equipment needed • Safe • Simple • Flexible

Activities may be completed standing, seated, or with support (chair, wall, or adult help). 

The goal is movement, participation, and effort.

Here’s a simple, independent, at-home DAPE lesson designed for elementary students that uses household items, builds locomotor skills, object control, balance, and cardio endurance, and can be completed without adult help.

🏠 At-Home DAPE Lesson: “Move Your Body Obstacle Course”

Time: 20–25 minutes
Equipment:

• 5–8 stuffed animals, shoes, or pillows

• 1 ball (or rolled up socks)

• 1 laundry basket or box

• Paper plate or towel

• Tape or string (optional)

🔥 Warm-Up (5 minutes)

Complete each movement for 30 seconds:

1. March in place

2. Arm circles forward and backward

3. 10 jumping jacks

4. Reach down and touch your toes 10 times

5. 10 big slow hops

🧭 Set Up Your Obstacle Course

Place objects around the room to make stations.

1. Zig-Zag Path – line up shoes or stuffed animals to weave through

2. Jump Zone – a pillow to jump over

3. Balance Walk – a line of tape or string to walk on

4. Slide Spot – paper plate/towel on the floor

5. Throwing Station – basket and ball/socks

🚦 Obstacle Course Directions (Complete 3 Rounds)

Go through the stations in order:

1. Zig-Zag Run
   Run or fast walk weaving around the objects without touching them.

2. Pillow Jump
   Jump over the pillow 5 times using two feet.

3. Balance Walk
   Walk heel-to-toe across the tape/string. Arms out like an airplane.

4. Slide Spot
   Put one foot on the plate/towel and slide it forward and back 10 times, then switch feet.

5. Throwing Station
   Stand 5 big steps away. Throw the ball/socks into the basket 10 times.

❤️ Cardio Challenge (3 minutes)

Do this 3 times:

• 10 high knees

• 10 butt kicks

• 10 jumping jacks

🧘 Cool Down (3–5 minutes)

• Reach for the sky and hold for 10 seconds

• Touch toes and hold for 10 seconds

• Sit and stretch legs out for 10 seconds

• Take 5 deep breaths

✅ Challenge Yourself

Try to:

• Move faster each round

• Make more baskets each round

• Keep your balance without stepping off the line

🎯 Skills Practiced

• Locomotor movement (running, jumping)

• Balance and body control

• Object control (throwing)

• Coordination

• Cardiovascular endurance

👍 Move your body • ⭐ Do your best • 😄 Have fun!